Description: In the paragraph alignment icon labels on the Formatting toolbar the icon label “Align Horizontally” should be “Align Center” It is inconsistent with the other labels in LibreOffice, and other applications. In the Modify Paragraph Style dialog Alignment tab this is “Centered” which makes more sense. Which term does not belong? - Left - Right - Center - Horizontal “Please align this for me horizontally.” “What does that mean?” “Oh sorry, align it to the left, or to the right, or in the center.” Horizontal is an axis or direction. X-axis = Horizontal axis (usually) Y-axis = Vertical axis (usually) Direction or Axis: Horizontal/Vertical Horizontal Alignment: Left, Center, Right Vertical Alignment: Top, Center, Bottom “Align Center” would be a more logical, and more consistent label. Examples in other applications … Microsoft Word Paragraph horizontal alignment labels include: - Align Left - Align Center - Align Right - Justified Adobe InDesign Paragraph horizontal alignment labels include: - Align left - Align center - Align right - Justify with last line aligned left - Justify with last line aligned center - Justify with last line aligned right - Justify all lines Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Correction "Center Horizontally" should be "Align Center"
I guess you are right. We are not really offering to center vertically after all..
The label was changed from 'Centered' to 'Center Horizontally' in bug 85825. (In reply to LibreTraining from comment #0) > In the Modify Paragraph Style dialog Alignment tab this is “Centered” which > makes more sense. As the alignment tab only permits you to adjust horizontal alignment, there isnt a need to label it 'Horizontal Center'. (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #2) > I guess you are right. We are not really offering to center vertically after > all.. We do if you are in a table in Writer and in a cell in Calc.
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #3) > (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #2) > > I guess you are right. We are not really offering to center vertically after > > all.. > > We do if you are in a table in Writer and in a cell in Calc. Table properties and Format cell are in a different context.
I like the wording of LibreOffice 3.3.0 (OOO330m19 Build:6): "Align Center Horizontally" in addition to the others "Align Left" and "Align Right". I think that we should use "Horizontally" regardless we don't offer a vertical alignment because that is more precise and leafs no question open.
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #4) > > We do if you are in a table in Writer and in a cell in Calc. > > Table properties and Format cell are in a different context. It is not a different context as the labels are unified everywhere and we cant change the label based on context.
Reshma committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ea5f9dd6d5bc10e17a9745a0d2b8ae7a342833a8 tdf#106375: change tool tip to "Align Center" It will be available in 6.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thanks for your patch, Reshma!!
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #8) > Thanks for your patch, Reshma!! :)
Verified with Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: a5172f363236f6c58fe6a925e81be2b0e016cc75 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-03-18_23:39:28 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group Thank you!